>> i mean, it's important to note that up until this event in connecticut, we were going in the wrong direction. i mean, most embarrassing to watch the house of representatives take up a bill that would have prevented the sale of weapons to people on the terrorism list. the bill failed. this is crazy. we have to get to the point of having a conversation about whether the public interest is somehow served by having access to uzis and a kept 47s. >> it mike makes me think what the table won't solve the problem. we need something much more aggressive, that is, outside of this political conversation. >> i think you'll have a couple of different conversations going on the president obama has asked the absolutely right pepper, vice president joe biden, to head up the effort and he wants a report by end of january so that's right now. there's also been discussion and, again, the u.s. conference of mayors and others, we also support a commission, a serious operation that looks at the larger issue of violence in america. we have a violence problem. gun problem, we have a swrooirns problem. dom